Flash Chart Builder

Flash Chart Builder provides a visual method for designing and including Flash charts within a Web page. The created Flash Chart component will retrieve data from the database at run-time and present it as a visual graph.
The Flash Chart Builder provides various options for configuring the chart's data source, style, layout, colors and captions.

The Flash Chart Builder is available under the Builders tab of the Toolbox. After launching the builder you will be provided with the following configurations steps.

Data Source

Specify a data source and fields to be charted.

Parameter	Description
Connection	Select or create a database connection to be used to retrieve data. You can select one of existing database connections or create a new connection.
Data Source	Table,  view, SQL query or Stored Procedure that provides values to be charted. Click the [...] button to open the Visual Query Builder where you can design the database query or provide your own SQL statement or Stored Procedure to be used as Data Source. Sample Data Source configuration via Visual Query Builder:
Value fields	The list of available fields that can be charted, provided by the Data Source. Select fields to be presented graphically by the chart.
Caption field	Select field whose value contains captions for the charted data.
Order by	Select field by which the displayed data should be sorted.
Max records	Maximum number of records (values). For example you may limit the number of 20 data records to be charted.
Data series in	Select Rows or Columns, depending on your data series. Rows: specifies that your data series are from the rows of the data. Columns: specifies that your data series are from the columns of the data.

Type

Select a type of chart that you like to use. Column, bar, linear, area and pie charts are available.

Series

Specify captions for each of the data series to be charted.

Options

Specify chart options.

 

Option	Description
Size	Desired  size of the chart in pixels. Specify both width and height.
Chart title	Title to be shown at the top of the chart.
Legend	Specify whether to display the legend for data series (Y-axis)
Values	Specify whether to label chart values.
Grid lines	Specify whether to display grid lines.
X-Axis Label Direction	Direction of labels shown below the chart (X-axis)

Layout

Select where and how the  chart legend should be displayed.

Style

Select chart style, which controls the colors, fonts, animations and other visual attributes associated with the chart. Styles can be reused across multiple charts.
You can also create custom chart styles and modify them via the built-in Flash Chart Style Builder. Select an available style and click "Modify" to access this feature. 

Flash Chart Style Builder

Flash Chart Style Builder provides global customization options for charts, which can be reused and applied across multiple charts.
The default styles cannot be modified, however, you can click the "Save As" button to save the current changes as a new style. The new custom styles can be further modified and saved via the OK button.